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This is still not a clear answer. Where is the data? who are those people holding the data? how do they enroll in this?

It is a service you can sign up for https://crowdstorage.com/products/device-backup-my-cloud-hom.... Stay tuned for support on more devices in the future (i.e. synology, qnap, etc.).

We also purchase storage in datacenters.